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Across-the-Board Tax Cuts Generate Inequality

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The authors argue that across-the-board tax cuts, such as the Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and 1986, generate inequality on a very large scale. The windfall of money to the superrich is an order of magnitude greater than that of the rest of the society even if in percentage terms it is smaller. It is increasingly clear that there is “no natural, spontaneous process to prevent destabilizing, inegalitarian forces from prevailing permanently” (Piketty 2014, 21). We demonstrate with a straightforward model of how an across-the-board tax cut generates large-scale inequality.

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  • John Komlos, 2020. "Across-the-Board Tax Cuts Generate Inequality," Challenge, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 63(2), pages 90-97, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:challe:v:63:y:2020:i:2:p:90-97
    DOI: 10.1080/05775132.2019.1705543
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    1. John Komlos, 2021. "Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump. Market Power, Wage Repression, Asset Price Inflation, and Industrial Decline," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 97(318), pages 450-453, September.
    2. Behrouz Sadeghi Amroabadi & Seyed Amin Mansouri & Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, 2024. "Investigating The Factors Affecting The Income Distribution On The Afghan Economy With Emphasis On Taxes," Journal of Academic Research in Economics, Spiru Haret University, Faculty of Accounting and Financial Management Constanta, vol. 16(2 (July)), pages 312-332.

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